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>> to some degree, if you hurt your head or your foot, you should say you're hurt. >> advocate for themselves. i can put pressure on any 10-year-old. >> some kids are always more comfortable with doing the headers. its just -- it's become part of it. you can tell the kids that are willing to jump in there and use their head. there are, you know, times where, like, coaches need to be educated because, you know, the goalkeeper's punting the ball, you know, 50 yards, 40 feet in the air, and coaches on the side yelling "head that! head that!" >> let's talk about that. >> some kids aren't going to ...

An estimated 3 million american kids play soccer. today they're all adjusting to some new rules of that game. the u.s. soccer federation has issued new guidelines for young players either limiting headers or banning them outright. it all depends on the age of the kids. this move comes after a class-action lawsuit filed in california last year by a group of players and their parents citing the high number of concussions suffered by high school soccer players. nbc's kerry sanders is at purdue university. tell us all about these new guidelines and what you learned firsthand. >> reporter: kewell, ...

We showed from mls with those spectacular headers getting the goals and that's a big part of the game. i played soccer since i was a kid. i played all the way up through college. it just really caught me offguard when they said heading was a problem. i'm like really? i played soccer a good portion of my life and didn't realize it. >> i did 9 gs in an airplane and i didn't pass out but that's for another guy for you and i to talk as friends. >> i'll talk to someone about that and find out. >> coming up, we'lling speaking to parents about the risks. >> how many of you have a child who over the y...

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Girls soccer in particular and concussions and you were showing me how i was terrible at it and how to head the ball the proper way and talked about training and teaching and an advocate of that. if you're not letting young girls under 10 or boys do headers at all, how do you teach them? >> i think initially what we want to do with the youngest of the young players is to teach them about not only the foot skills of soccer but about spatial awareness, we want to get them stronger and in terms of accepting pressure, when's it feel like when somebody is close to you? heading is a part of the prob...